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I was just wondering here, could I please have some answers please.

Which Do you think, Italian or Japanese, would be the best language for Mars? Opinions... (But please stick to Italian or Japanese, the other Lang. Topic covers all languages).

Sorry, just went back and read the post. So, u meant the sled can never go faster than 0.3km/s/s. Isn't that a bit slow?

This may not be imprtant exactly, but all the best sites for volcanoes are in unstable countries, politically i mean. I mean, Kenya, Tanzania and Malaysia (to it is the best of the three by far), are not exactly the baskets you want to place all you eggs.
Though I may be mistaken, I sometimes can jump to conclusions.
But, could it be possible to build a track in a more stable country (a western country).
Would'ny you just need a longer track and a different launch angle?
My ideas for possible sites are;
Monte Amaro, Italy. 2793m high, 50km to the Aegean sea for eastward launch, but 42 degrees N.
Serra de Cadi, Spain. 2567m high, 175km to Ligurian Gulf, but again 42 degrees north.
Cerro-Pena Nevada, Mexico. 3644m high, 150km to Gulf of Mexico (but not sure), 24 degrees north, but the problem is it's in an earthquake zone.

Another possibility would be to built a launch track in French Guiana, with is only 4 degrees North, but there is no mountain, but is a mountain necessary, how much of a rise is need at the end of the track?

I know none of these come to being anywhere near are useful as Mt. Kenya would be, or Kilimanjaro, but all four sites are in more politically stable environments, so the investment would be safe.

What does anyone think? Personally out of the four ideas i think the Italy one would be best, or possibly French Guiana.

Umm...Hi, actually I was just thinking about this, and i wonder if anyone could help me.

I worked out the figures, but i want to see what answers others get ok,

Question;
To maintain an orbit of +200km you need a launch speed of 8.063 km/s. No when you launch from surface eastwards can use the earth's rotational velocity as part of you launch velocity, so at the equator you will only need a launch velocity of aroung 7.57 km/s.
Would it be possible to launch with an acceleration of 3g on a mountain track and how long would the track need to be?

Just want to see if your answers come close to mine.
And answers/theories/suggestions would be helpful. I will tell you my answers later if anyone wants them.

What you fail to realise is all your evils you mention are in the past. America is the largest present evil. And I do think of America's good. You have some of the best Universities in the world.  Most of then in the North-East which is quite Europeanesque. But American self-righteousness does not allow them to see their own problems. And yes I am a bit jealous, or more resentful. For America does not deserve what it has. It is only so rich from getting money out of Britain and France during the World Wars. Profiting on death.

As in the famous quote..."History ended in 1917 when America became the most powerful nation on earth."

And i am not going to argue anymore. For i can never agree with you and you can never agree with me. We are both patriotic and should be. Ok.

The "norm" as you put is the majority, And the majority of Americans are fat. So overweight is your norm.
And I didn't call you ignorant but maybe where you live and your age group. Maybe there isnt a high percentage of overweightness. Maybe you caught on to the fact being fat is bad. Which very few Americans understand or care about. I don't know which.

Anyway this topic was about the evils of Capitalism not the evils imposed on the world by the United States. Despite how intertwined the subjects are. Also, in a way, every American sort of has to defend Capitalism. a) it keeps you in control of the world, so to speak and b) over the past 60 years you have killed too many people imposing Capitalism throughout the world just to accept its a bad system.

Americans over the past 50 years haven't even had the ability to consider Socialism never mind adopt it. I feel sorry that you live/lived in such an oppressed soceity/

Some one a while back said capitaliasm should go into space along with democracy, which I think is very Ironic because Capitalism opposes democracy, prefering to keep power with the wealthy (and usually stupid) elite. All it is is Autpcracy with a new name. If you are going to have dictatorship of the wealthy, use a royal family, at least they know how to handle money (not that I am pro-dictatorship - but anything is better that another Americanised Capitalist state, another country where only 20& vote because the other 80% are too fat to egt in the poling booths. I am sorry but I don't trust americans, you may be nice people, you probably are, but ur the "new money" rich kid of the world - stupid and unused to money. No offence  - but it is true - current consensus in Britain is the USA is a bigger threat to world security than any other country, because ur not that experienced as a nation, are you?)

No Offecne, btw. But it is all true.

Sorry, I was on about strongest economies, not GDP. Sorry bout the mix up.

The only LARGE problem I see with Mars is the ONE continent is so big , and most of the south has no large areas of water; isn't it going to turn into a Giant Russia ir Arid Antarctic Desert, making most of the southern hemisphere rather useless.

But you all see right, Mars will probably be easier to terraform.

And the estimates for freezing the CO2 is 120 years at latest guess and it will take about 90 years to speed up Venus' rotation at latest guess.

soph, I no this is a random question, but r u male or female? Just curious.

I hold that since Mars is inherantly beautiful, the language it has should be. English, German, Lojban, Spanish, etc. are ugly langauges. We must find a language of beauty, in both appearance and sound for Mars.

I still say Italian, or maybe French are best. And it isn't saying a language is better than another. I hold Japanese is fantastic language, but I would never use it as oficial, it is just to complicated, it took me four years to really begin to pick it up, where as i was speaking italian fluently in 3 months.
So it is not discrimination, just some languages are easier and nicer on the ear than others. Am I not correct, I would much prefer to listen to Italian than German (though German is a very interesting language with it's own beauty.)

Every langauge has its beauty, but some are more beautiful than others.

Ok -  Lojban and Esperanto may sound good because they are neutral -  but since they have never been spoken naturally, most of the needed vocabulary won't exist, will it?

Also, English may be technical, but it is confusing, it may be easy to write, but hell to pronounce, unlike romance languages (excluding Spanish) where each letter has a sound which is always used. In English we have five sounds for "a" and "e", four for (there is a problem, words sounding too much alike) "i", and two for "o", "u" and "y".

I still hold we need an official language on Mars, because if each settlement speaks a seperate language, they are unlikely to join in a global government. Langauge and Religion are the biggest divides, so let's at least only use one language (use as many religions as you want, but NO state religion or Official Religion, people should have freedom to worship).